I’ve long stopped smearing drecks across this blog, preferring instead to fire off utilitarian (or so I believed) posts on C2O library’s growing site, and keeping the personal on my handwritten journals. 4 years ago I was hammering and painting the bookshelves using Danny’s notes. Now I’m thinking of upgrading to ceiling-high shelves as more and …
Ripple, and books
Sorry to those reading from RSS readers — my blog went a bit nuts after I updated WordPress and changed the layout. Ripple – A Celebration of Water in Warringah I will be performing for SoundWaves at a gamelan concert as part of Langen Suka on April 29, 1-3pm. 80 minutes of Gamelan with one …
Protected: le deluge
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When reason fails
Changed the layout, added recent comments feature. I also did some minor tweakings for the portfolio, so now if you want to spare yourself my ramblings and just syndicate the images, they now have their own RSS. New reviews at books @ cc. The Devil in the Hills by Cesare Pavese. Another story of sufficient, …
Review: Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creations (Olivia Judson)
Arranged in such a way as to mimic sex advice columns, with all sorts of frustrated, confused creatures (although that would be an exaggeration —plants are hardly discussed) writing for an advice on their sexual lives, the book gives you up-to-date information on evolutionary biology of sex.
Review: Madness Explained by Richard Bentall
The book is divided into four parts. Part one deals with the history of psychology: it sketches the simplifying effect that Kraepelin’s classification had on the theory and practice of psychiatry and its growth, the triumph of APA, centred around Euro/American-centric ideas, that doesn’t sufficiently take into account cross-cultural differences, and how the production of …
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